Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Onyx Top Table By Henry Dasson

Henry Dasson

The beautiful shaped onyx top within a bronze rim, above a long centered and two small side drawers, the backside similarly designed, the legs mounted with floral motif and raised on bronze sabots.

Stamped Henry Dasson et Cie 1892 to the underside of the carcass.

Henry Dasson was considered one of the finest makers of gilt bronze mounted furniture in the nineteenth Century. He established a workshop at 106 rue Vieille-du-Temple, Paris, and specialised in the production of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI style furniture using the very finest ormolu mounts with the highest quality mercury gilding. In 1871, Dasson purchase Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen business and remaining stock.

Dasson exhibited at the 1878 and 1889 Paris Exhibition